1 volume : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: 1.Shakespeare without words: the nineteenth-century legacy -- 2.Biograph's pioneering film of King John (1899) -- King John (BMBC: W.K.-L. Dickson and Walter Pfeffer Dando, 1899) -- 3.Conflicted allegiances in Shakespeare films of the transitional era -- The Tempest (Clarendon, 1908), Otello (FAI, 1909) -- 4.Corporate authorship: the Shakespeare films of the Vitagraph Company of America -- Vitagraph's Julius Caesar (1908), Macbeth (1908), Romeo and Juliet (1908), Othello (1908), The Merchant of Venice (1908), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909), King Lear (1909), Twelfth Night (1910) -- Georges Melies' La Mort de Jules Cesar (1907) -- Cines' Brutus (1910) -- Thanhouser's A Winter's Tale (1910) -- Film d'Arte Italiana's Re Lear (1910) -- 5.Pedigree and performance codes in silent films of Hamlet -- Hamlet (Gaumont-Hepworth, 1913), Amleto (Rodolfi-Film, 1917) -- 6.Shakespeare films of the 1916 tercentenary

Note continued: The Real thing at Last (J.M. Barrie), Macbeth (Triangle-Reliance), Romeo and Juliet (Fox), Romeo and Juliet (Metro) -- 7.Asta Nielsen and Emil Jannings: stars of German Shakespeare films of the early 1920s -- Hamlet (Art-Film, 1920), Othello (Worner-Filmgesellschaft, 1922) -- Afterword: `No tongue, all eyes! Be silent': performing wordless Shakespeare today -- Filmography (a) Commercially available Shakespeare films of the silent era -- (b).General filmography

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